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Jay Moran

Buffalo

Morning Edition Host at WBFO-FM (Buffalo, NY)

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  • 2 weeks ago | btpm.org | Alex Simone |Jay Moran

    Local parks are getting recognition on a national scale, according to two lists of the country's best parks. The transformation of the former LaSalle Park into Ralph Wilson Park is boosting the national ranking of Buffalo parks. According to the Trust for Public land, Buffalo sits 22nd on the ParkScore index, a jump of 19 places since last year. The $100 million investment in Ralph Wilson Park has increased the city's per capita spending to $235 this year from $102 per capita last year.

  • 2 weeks ago | btpm.org | Jay Moran

    Author Will Bardenwerper has become well-acquainted with the road from Pittsburgh to Western New York. Three years ago, he made the trip multiple times to conduct research for "Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America." He'll be making that familiar trip again Tuesday night when he visits The Place on Lexington Avenue to discuss his work during an appearance with "Buffalo, Books and Beer."The work never seems to stop for the author.

  • 1 month ago | btpm.org | Jay Moran |Dan Karpenchuk

    BTPM Canadian Beat Reporter Dan Karpenchuk joined BTPM's Jay Moran on 'Morning Edition' on Monday, April 28, 2025. The two laid out how the pivotal federal election is shaping up. Click the listen button above the photo to hear the conversation. Below is a transcription of that segment:Jay Moran: In our studios, I'm Jay Moran, and we now reach out to Dan Karpenchuk in Toronto. Good morning to you, Dan. Dan Karpenchuk: Good morning, Jay. How are you? Jay Moran: I'm well.

  • 2 months ago | wbfo.org | Jay Moran

    On Friday at 7:30 pm, "Considering Matthew Shepard" will be performed at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Shepard, an openly gay 21-year-old college student, died in 1998 after he was beaten and tied to a fence in Wyoming. Garrett Martin, Organist and Director of Music at the church, recalls many of the details. He was 12 at the time. "I remember that feeling, growing up in a conservative Southern Baptist family in a small town in Tennessee.

  • 2 months ago | wbfo.org | Jay Moran

    Spending time in Karl Smith's Allentown workshop, it's easy to be captured by his enthusiasm for his invention: Truest North Compass. "This compass takes you where you actually want to go, some place you actually care about," he explained. More a "storytelling device," Smith's invention is programmed to always direct its owner toward their favorite spot on Earth. Of his early customers, 15 or so couples have used it as part of the wedding-engagement stories.

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